Chapter 1210: Sasha Went Missing at Midnight
She had hidden well, and everyone believed what she said.
Just a few more months and everything here would be over. After graduation, she would be a new person!
“Why? What happened?”
A tall girl walked out of the dormitory, arms crossed and looking arrogant.
She was the one who had taken all of Ruth’s belongings and was also one of her roommates.
“A filthy beggar like you doesn’t deserve to live under the same roof as someone as noble as me. Do you know your smell is disgusting?”
Ruth looked at her with red eyes, clenching her fists tightly.
“You’re too much!”
“Too much? Am I worse than you?”
“A piece of clothing picked from a trash heap, patched up, and you dared to sell it to me for 1, 000 dollars!”
The surrounding students were in an uproar.
Many had bought clothes from Ruth before.
Hearing that the expensive clothes they bought were picked from the trash made them feel nauseous.
“I also bought one. She sold me a sweater for 150 dollars. I’m returning it now!”
“Me too. Who knows if these clothes were worn by dead people? It’s so unlucky!”
Soon, clothes that Ruth had sold were thrown at her face.
She bent down indifferently to pick up the clothes amidst the scolding, and suddenly she sneered.
“When you bought clothes from me, what did you say? I said I wouldn’t sell, but you insisted on giving me money to take them.”
“When you wore them, you flaunted them like butterflies. Now you despise them as dirty? Is it the clothes that are dirty or your vanity?”
A piece of clothing, even if picked from a trash bin, would be snatched up by rich people if it had a designer label.
So was it the clothes’ fault?
Clearly, it was the fault of those who competed with each other.
“This…”
They couldn’t deny she had a point, but that wasn’t an excuse for her to cheat others out of their money.
“Stop making excuses. This piece of clothing is worth ten dollars, but you sold it to us for thousands. You took us for fools!”
Ruth laughed even more at this.
“Aren’t you?”
If they were smart, how could they have been fooled by her for three years?
She should thank them.
Without them, she wouldn’t have been able to continue her university education.
Seeing that Ruth had no intention of repenting, the rich girls were furious.
“Alright, you filthy beggar. If we don’t teach you a lesson, you’ll think we’re afraid of you. Get her!”
With an order, a dozen girls surrounded Ruth and cornered her against the wall, beating her.
Slaps and kicks landed on Ruth.
She held her head tightly with both hands and endured their beating silently.
Finally, the dorm supervisor intervened to stop them.
“Stop! If you keep beating her, someone will die. Then none of you will graduate!”
Faced with the serious matter of graduation, no one dared to continue and had to stop.
“Hmph, you’re lucky this time! Leave the dorm today, or we’ll beat you every time we see you!”
After leaving their harsh words, they turned and left, leaving Ruth covered in blood.
Her face was scratched, and her clothes hung in tatters. No one around was willing to help.
The dorm supervisor glanced at her with pity.
“Are you okay? Do you need me to take you to the hospital?”
Ruth struggled to stand up and declined her kindness.
“No need. I’m… I’m fine.”
Going to the hospital would cost a lot, and she had spent all her money on that chicken.
She didn’t even look at the scattered luggage on the ground and slowly walked away with heavy steps.
Her lonely and helpless figure was heartbreaking, but thinking about what she had done, the dorm supervisor didn’t know what to say.
“Sigh, another poor soul.”
Night fell at Red Maple Villa.
In the bedroom, the wall lamp cast a warm light on two figures cuddling together.
Sasha lay in Pearl’s arms, listening intently to her story.
“Once upon a time, there was a princess with seven brothers… Later, she wove clothes from nettles, and her brothers finally turned back into humans.”
As Pearl spoke, she fell asleep first, while the little girl in her arms still had bright eyes waiting for the story to continue.
Not hearing Pearl’s voice for a while, Sasha couldn’t help but look up.
“Pearl?”
“Pearl, are you asleep?”
The woman sat half-leaning against the bedhead with her eyes closed, breathing evenly in deep sleep.
Sasha knew she must be exhausted from taking her to the amusement park during the day. She gently removed the storybook from Pearl’s hand and carefully pulled up the blanket over her.Original content from NôvelDrama.Org.
“Pearl, sleep well. I won’t disturb you.”
As Sasha turned to get off the bed and return to her room, she saw the little yellow warbler on the windowsill again.
This time it wasn’t carrying wildflowers but a blood-stained necklace.
Seeing the necklace, Sasha understood immediately. She tiptoed barefoot towards the bird.
“Little birdie, do you have something to tell me?”
“How is he?”
Sasha asked two questions in succession. The warbler could only respond with chirps.
“You say he’s bleeding a lot… Take me to him quickly.”
The warbler dropped the blood-stained necklace and flew into the night sky.
Sasha quietly opened the door and sneaked out. The girl and bird quickly disappeared down the corridor.
When Pearl woke up, there was no one beside her.
“How did I fall asleep? I remember I was telling Sasha a story.”
Pearl looked at the empty spot beside her and reached out… The bedsheet was cold.
It seemed Sasha had been gone for a while.
“Hmm? Where’s Sasha?”
Could she have gone back to her room?
To ensure the little one’s safety, Pearl got out of bed despite her drowsiness and walked towards Sasha’s room in slippers, yawning.
“Sasha?”
When she opened the door and saw no one in the children’s room, with the blanket neatly folded on the bed…
“It looks like she never came back. Where could Sasha have gone?”
It was already eleven-thirty at night. Giana usually locked up at ten and went to bed; the security guard went home at midnight.
Pearl quickly ran downstairs and knocked on Giana’s door.
Knock knock knock-
“Giana, are you asleep? Sasha is missing. Have you seen her?”
Is that… Miss Pearl’s voice?
Awakened from a nightmare where her son was covered in blood begging for help, Giana woke up with a start.
“Ah.”